ASP.NET V1.0 has been released to manufacturing and is now available for immediate download from http://www.asp.net. In addition to the release of ASP.NET,
Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. These are both available for MSDN subscribers on MSDN, Microsoft's resource for developers to stay current on the latest Microsoft technologies.

As Scott Guthrie of Microsoft stated, "It has been a long road since the project's inception and a truly amazing beta process." The product is slated to officially lauch to the public on February 13, 2002.

In recognition of the final countdown to the official launch, here are some final statistics about the ASP.NET V1 Project:

8,400,000,000:
# of ASP.NET Pages served by www.msn.com site (with beta2!)

5,343,271:
# of lines of source code in the project

3,500,000:
# of ASP.NET Beta2 CDs distributed in magazines

252,000:
# of downloads of the IBuySpy samples

178,920
# of cans of soda (approximately) consumed by team during project

21,453:
# of attendees at the one TechEd and two PDC events so far about .NET